Are California Elementary School Test Scores More Strongly Associated With Urban Trees Than Poverty?

ABSTRACT: Unprecedented rates of urbanization are changing our understanding of the ways in which children build connections to the natural world, including the importance of educational settings in affecting this relationship. In addition to influencing human-nature connection, greenspace around school grounds has been associated with benefits to students' cognitive function. Questions remain regarding the size of this benefit relative to other factors, and which features of greenspace are responsible for these effects. We conducted a large-scale correlative study subsampling elementary schools (n = 495) in ecologically, socially and economically diverse California. After controlling for common educational determinants (e.g., socio-economic status, race/ethnicity, student teacher ratio, and

SUBMITTER: Tallis H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215835 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature